'''''Futurama''''' is the name of the first video game created around ''[[Futurama]]''. The game was developed by UDS and released {{date|1 August}}, [[2003]] in Europe and {{date|14 August}}, 2003 in North America for the {{w|Xbox (console)|Xbox}} and {{w|PlayStation 2}}. Since it uses the same name as the show without a subtitle, it is commonly referred to as '''the console game''' (since the announcement of [[Game of Drones|the mobile game]]). In the UK the game was actively marketed on television as "Futurama: The Game" in advertisements on satellite network {{w|Sky One}}.

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==The Story==

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== The Story ==

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===Act I: Fry===

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At [[Planet Express]], [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] learn from [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] (who's wearing a sombrero) that he's sold the company to [[Mom]]. Immediately after this, a report comes on the news saying that she is now the majority shareholder, and ruler, of [[Earth]]. Mom claims everyone as slaves and sets a curfew so the crew decide to escape. Unfortunately the ship is severely damaged, with unknown reason, and needs repairs. While everyone else does something important, Fry is instructed to find a hammer. Fry dies getting the hammer but is brought back with the Professor's new invention, the [[Reanimator]] (which looks like a giant toaster). Fry keeps the hammer (for a weapon), which the Professor didn't need, and heads off to find the tools that are needed. After the repairs are done, it turns out that the backup dark matter engine is needed, but was pawned. Fry is given a gun and sent via the [[NNY Sewers|sewers]] (to avoid the Hoverbot Death Troopers) to [[Rook Takes Pawnshop]].

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===Act II: Bender===

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=== Act I: Fry ===

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Fry returns with the engine and they install it, the four escape, taking the Reanimator with them. Mom converts the planet into a spaceship in order to take over the universe and is annoyed to hear that the Planet Express crew is escaping. She then proceeds to try to hunt them down, but the Earth's engines aren't powerful enough. At Sal's Salvage on an asteroid, [[Minor_Characters#Sal|Sal]] informs them that the only kind of engine that will move the Earth is a dark matter engine ("and a big ones at thats"), and she'll need the Professor to get it. The Professor informs Bender that he's now a playable character and the ship gets caught. Sal has helped out Mom by trapping the Planet Express ship in a suck beam. Bender abandons ship, in full view of Mom and her sons, then dies on impact with the asteroid and is brought back by the Reanimator, which falls on his disassembled body. He then agrees to rescue the others in exchange for a box of magazines with fembot centre folds.

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At [[Planet Express]], [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], [[Turanga Leela|Leela]] and [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] learn from [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] (who's wearing a sombrero) that he's [[Mom buying Planet Express|sold Planet Express to]] [[Mom]]. Immediately after this, a report comes on the news saying that, thanks to the sale, she is now the majority shareholder, and ruler, of [[Earth]]. Mom claims the entire population as slaves and sets a curfew. The crew decide they have no choice but to escape Earth. Unfortunately the ship is severely damaged, with unknown reason, and needs repairs. While everyone else does something important, Fry is instructed to find a hammer. Fry dies getting the hammer but is brought back with the Professor's new invention, the [[Reanimator]] (which looks like a giant toaster).

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On his way to rescue the crew Bender has to evade [[Ignar]] in a turret, machinery activated by [[Larry]] and finally win in battle against [[Walt]], who's in a tank. Bender deactivates the beam, boards the ship, and they escape.

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Fry keeps the hammer (for a weapon), which the Professor didn't need, and heads off to [[Media:Planet Express Floorplan (game).png|find the tools]] that are needed. After the repairs are done, it turns out that the backup dark matter engine is needed, but was pawned. Fry is told to retrieve the engine from the pawn shop but Mom has deployed [[Hoverbot Death Troopers]] to enforce the curfew. Instead, Fry is given a small gun and sent via the [[NNY Sewers|sewers]] then works his way through [[Old New York]]. He emerges from underground in a [[New New York#Red Light District|Red Light District]], where he finds a gun with much more fire power to fight off any attacking Death Troopers. When he reaches uptown [[New New York]], he steals a [[chicken walker]] to fight off the Death Troopers and finally makes it to [[New New York#Rook Takes Pawnshop|Rook Takes Pawnshop]].

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===Act III: Leela===

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*Fry's gameplay levels:

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The Professor says that he's not skilled enough to invent something to save the day; they'll have to visit his mentor and former graduate advisor [[Minor_Characters#Adoy|Adoy]], who lives on [[Bogad]] in the furthest corner of the universe. They don't have enough fuel, so Leela, who's now playable, is asked to get some. Mom catches them because she wants blueprints for the dark matter engine. They only exist in the Professor's head so she takes that, in a jar, and sends the ship hurtling towards the [[Sun]]. The ship crash-lands near Sun City. [[Minor_Characters#Ra-Ra|Ra-Ra the Sun King]] offers them dark matter in exchange for protecting his people from the Sun God and his army. Fry and Bender wait at the ship.

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**[[Planet Express]]

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**[[Sewers]]

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**[[Subway]]

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**[[Old New York]]

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**[[New New York#Red Light District|Red Light District]]

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**Uptown

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**[[New New York]]

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Leela sets up lasers, which hit the Sun God, severely injuring him. He admits to being an "ordinary eternal omniscient super intelligent being" and explains that making robots from bones is more evil, then laughs so hard he falls into the Sun's molten surface and dies. Leela escapes the sinking temple. Villagers exit buildings and Leela returns to the ship. Ra-Ra rewards them with fuel and asks them to celebrate with him at the temple, which burns up in the background. The crew leave before he can notice.

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=== Act II: Bender ===

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[[File:Futurama Game B.jpg|right|thumb|Bender on the asteroid]]

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Fry returns with the engine and they install it, the four escape, taking the Reanimator with them. Mom converts the planet into a spaceship in order to take over {{the universe}} and is annoyed to hear that the Planet Express crew is escaping. She then proceeds to try to hunt them down, but the Earth's engines aren't powerful enough. At [[Sal and Son's]] junkard on an [[Asteroid Belt|asteroid]], [[Sal]] informs them that the only kind of engine that will move the Earth is a dark matter engine ("and a big ones at thats"), and she'll need the Professor to get it. The Professor informs Bender that he's now a playable character and the ship gets caught. Sal has helped out Mom by trapping the Planet Express ship in a suck beam. Bender abandons ship, in full view of Mom and her sons, then dies on impact with the asteroid and is brought back by the Reanimator, which falls on his disassembled body. He then agrees to rescue the others in exchange for a box of magazines with fembot centre folds.

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===Act IV: Zoidberg===

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On his way to rescue the crew, Bender works his way through a [[Weasel Canyon|canyon]] and has to evade [[Igner]] in a turret. He then enters a cave where he is chased by a boulder and finds a [[Mine Facility|mining facility]]. In the facility, [[Larry]] tries to kill him with machinery. After finally reaching Sal's junkyard, he battles against [[Walt]], who's in a tank. After the tank explodes (although Walt was able to escape), Bender deactivates the suck beam, boards the Planet Express ship, and everyone escapes.

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Mom has hooked the Professor into the Earth's engines. She starts flying the ship around destroying other planets. The crew land on Bogad, quite literally in the corner of the universe. They meet up with [[Dr. John Zoidberg|Dr Zoidberg]], who is making a cameo. He identifies a nearby animal as a horse and gets on. The crew talk to Adoy who tell them that his latest invention, the [[Time Tunneller]], will get them back to before Mom became unstoppable. The hand crank on the machine will only turn the universe back two minutes, if turned for two minutes, so Zoidberg is sent off to find the generator.

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Zoidberg reaches the generator and turns it on. Adoy sets up the Time Tunneller and the crew head back in time to Earth. Zoidberg is left behind.

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**[[Weasel Canyon]]

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**Run, Bender, Run

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**[[Mine Facility|The Mine Facility]]

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**Red Rock Creek

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**[[Sal and Son's|The Junkyard]]

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**Rumble in the Junkyard

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===Act V: Mom===

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=== Act III: Leela ===

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Leela crash-lands the severely damaged ship in the Planet Express building. They quickly fulfil a time paradox by leaving the bad ship behind and taking the good ship to stop the Professor from selling the company. They crash the ship through the window of Mom's Headquarters just as the Professor is about to sign. The Reanimator falls from the wreckage and all three are regenerated. Fry warns the Professor. Mom tricks them into standing where she can trap them. They each have to try to escape from [[Minor_Characters#Destructor|Destructor]], with several gun upgrades, as he enters target practice mode.

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[[File:Futurama Game R.jpg|right|thumb|Meeting the locals, on the Sun]]

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The Professor says that he's not skilled enough to invent something to save the day; they'll have to visit his mentor and former graduate advisor [[Adoy]], who lives on [[Bogad]] in the furthest corner of the universe. They don't have enough fuel, so Leela, who's now playable, is asked to get some. Mom catches them because she wants blueprints for the dark matter engine. They only exist in the Professor's head so she takes that, in a jar, and sends the Planet Express ship hurtling towards the [[Sol|Sun]]. The ship crash-lands near [[Sun City]]. [[Ra-Ra]] the Sun King offers them dark matter in exchange for protecting his people from the murderous Sun God and his army of [[Bone-bots|undead skeletons]]. Fry and Bender wait at the ship.

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Fry finds a gun and soon after enters battle against Destructor. Fry wins and heads down to meet the other two. Mom’s sons are cleaning up. Ignar breaks the Reanimator, which falls on Destructor's body knocking it onto the crew, killing them, permanently. The Professor refuses to sell, but then Mom offers him a hat[[Futurama_(video_game)#Act_I:_Fry|...]]

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Leela works her way through the [[Sun Temple]], solving puzzles and beating up the bone army. She activates a number of crystals to gain access to the inner temple where she finds the [[Sun God Impostor|Sun God]]. By activating another set of crystals, she severely injures the Sun God. He admits to not being a god but an "ordinary eternal omniscient super intelligent being" and explains that the skeleton army was actually just robots made out of bones. He describes how making robots from bones is more evil, then laughs so hard he falls into the Sun's molten surface and dies. Leela escapes the sinking temple. With the false god's death, villagers are now safe to exit buildings while Leela returns to the ship. Ra-Ra rewards them with fuel and asks them to celebrate with him at the temple, which burns up in the background. The crew leave before he can notice.

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**[[Sun City|Market Square]]

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**Left Wing

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**Right Wing

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**Temple Courtyard

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**[[Sun Temple|Inner Temple]]

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=== Act IV: Zoidberg ===

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[[File:Futurama Game Zoidberg Horse.jpg|right|thumb|Zoidberg on his "horse"]]

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Mom has hooked the Professor's head into the Earth's engines where he admits that she is now unstoppable. She starts flying the Earth around the universe destroying other planets. The crew land on Bogad, quite literally in the corner of the universe. They meet up with [[Dr. John A. Zoidberg|Dr. Zoidberg]], who is making a cameo. He misidentifies a [[Bogad Swamp "Horse"|nearby animal]] as a horse and gets on. The crew talk to Adoy, who tells them that his latest invention, the [[Time Tunneller]], will get them back to before Mom became unstoppable. The machine has to be charged first by a generator located behind a [[Bogad Swamp|dangerous swamp]]. Without charging, the hand crank on the machine will only turn the universe back two minutes, if turned for two minutes.

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Zoidberg is sent off to find the generator by riding his "horse" and since the Reanimator doesn't work on him, Leela uses the hand crank on the Time Tunneller to bring him back every time he dies. Zoidberg reaches the generator and turns it on. Adoy sets up the Time Tunneller and the crew head back in time to Earth. Zoidberg is left behind.

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**[[Bogad Swamp|Bogad Swamp Trail]]

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[[File:Futurama Game L.jpg|right|thumb|Leela makes an escape]]

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Leela crash-lands the severely damaged ship in the Planet Express building next to the past ship. They leave the bad ship behind (this fulfils a time paradox and explains why the ship was damaged at the beginning of the game) and take the good ship to stop the Professor from selling the company. They crash the ship through the window of [[MomCorp Headquarters|Mom's Headquarters]] just as the Professor is about to sign the contract. The Reanimator falls from the wreckage and all three are regenerated. Fry warns the Professor of Mom's plan. Mom tricks Fry, Bender and Leela into standing where she can drop them through a trap door.

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They each find themselves in different parts of Mom's HQ and have to try to escape from [[Destructor]], with several gun upgrades, as he enters target practice mode. After Bender and Leela escape, Fry finds a gun and soon after enters battle against Destructor. Fry wins and heads down to meet the other two.

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**Leela's Last Laugh (Leela)

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**Fry Fights Back (Fry)

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== Reception ==

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In general, the game received weak/average responses, citing a lack of something exceptional in gameplay, but having hilarious cutscenes and one-liners.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbx/futurama?q=futurama |title=''Futurama'' Xbox reviews |publisher=Metacritic |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps2/futurama?q=futurama |title=''Futurama'' PlayStation 2 reviews |publisher=Metacritic |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref> Wired described the cutscenes as "side splitting".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/12/video-games-f-3.html |title=Videogames & Futurama, Part 4: The Lost Episode is on a PS2 Disc |publisher=Wired |author=Chris Baker |date=2007-12-20 |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref> One of the biggest criticisms was the lack of precise controls when some sections required it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2003/08/12/futurama-2 |title=Futurama |publisher=IGN |author=Douglass C. Perry |date=2003-08-12 |accessdate=2014-07-24}}</ref>

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*The game is among the few [[one-word titled media]].

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*The Planet Express level has a giant [[Easter egg#Easter Eggs in Futurama Video Games|Easter egg]] hidden behind one of its walls. The egg can be seen by moving the camera over the roof and past the wall.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://youtu.be/lut3UNw2kK4|title=The Giant Video Game Easter Egg You Probably Never Knew Existed in Futurama!|author=The Easter Egg Hunter|publisher=YouTube|date=2018-02-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://tcrf.net/Futurama|title=Futurama|publisher=The Cutting Room Floor}}</ref> The method for actually opening the wall to view the Easter egg legitimately was published on YouTube on July 21, 2019;<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbqFSSmk8NQ</ref> the following steps must be performed in sequence:

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#Open the drawer in the lab.

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#Destroy the TV in the room upstairs. The Easter egg will only appear if exactly 7 cash collectibles have been obtained at this point. If done correctly, you should hear a sound.

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#Go back to the short hallway where you came from. One second later, the wall of that hallway should open to reveal the literal Easter egg. The egg will wiggle when you hit it.

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*Bender's first person view is like the one shown in "[[Mother's Day]]".

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*The path created by the [[Time Tunneller]] looks much the same as the one in "[[Roswell that Ends Well]]".

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**Both episodes also feature Zoidberg saying "the crowd goes wild", then imitating the crowd. They were also written by [[J. Stewart Burns|the same person]].

*Leela remarked that her health restore item (a jar of pills) was better than steroids; she had to have mandatory steroid injections during her time as a professional Blernsball player.

*Leela remarked that her health restore item (a jar of pills) was better than steroids; she had to have mandatory steroid injections during her time as a professional Blernsball player.

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*In the Red Light District level, there is a {{cat|theater}} that plays ''[[All My Circuits: The Movie]]''.

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*In the end of Act I, the Chicken Walker is a reference to Star Wars.

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*In the end of Act I, the [[Chicken Walker]] is a reference to the {{st|All Terrain Scout Transport|AT-ST}}, from ''[[Star Wars]]''.

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**Additionally, the character and planet names in the game are the ''Star Wars'' names backwards.

*In Act II a flying saucer contains one of Elvis Presley's costumes and a spacesuit with a helmet that is shaped like his hair.

*In Act II a flying saucer contains one of Elvis Presley's costumes and a spacesuit with a helmet that is shaped like his hair.

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*Ra-Ra the Sun King's name is based on Ra, the Egyptian sun god.

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Bender and Leela each have a series of melee attacks while Leela can also roll and do backflips. They both have a powerful attack which can only be used if they have enough charge. Since Fry is not good at physical combat, he instead uses a series of guns and a hammer.

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*When in the sewers get fairly close to the pipe tentacles, shoot and then run through. You get about three seconds to run past. In area 8 you have to shoot the tentacles and jump past.

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[[File:Malfunctioning Eddie's game.png|right|thumb|One of the Sponsors]]

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Unlocked by collecting all Nibblers in the various levels.

*Movies

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**[[Volume Three|Season 3 - DVD]] Trailer

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**Attract Movie

**Credits Movie

**Credits Movie

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*Music from the game.

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Futurama is the name of the first video game created around Futurama. The game was developed by UDS and released 1 August, 2003 in Europe and 14 August, 2003 in North America for the Xbox and PlayStation 2. Since it uses the same name as the show without a subtitle, it is commonly referred to as the console game (since the announcement of the mobile game). In the UK the game was actively marketed on television as "Futurama: The Game" in advertisements on satellite network Sky One.

The Story

Act I: Fry

At Planet Express, Fry, Leela and Bender learn from the Professor (who's wearing a sombrero) that he's sold Planet Express toMom. Immediately after this, a report comes on the news saying that, thanks to the sale, she is now the majority shareholder, and ruler, of Earth. Mom claims the entire population as slaves and sets a curfew. The crew decide they have no choice but to escape Earth. Unfortunately the ship is severely damaged, with unknown reason, and needs repairs. While everyone else does something important, Fry is instructed to find a hammer. Fry dies getting the hammer but is brought back with the Professor's new invention, the Reanimator (which looks like a giant toaster).

Fry keeps the hammer (for a weapon), which the Professor didn't need, and heads off to find the tools that are needed. After the repairs are done, it turns out that the backup dark matter engine is needed, but was pawned. Fry is told to retrieve the engine from the pawn shop but Mom has deployed Hoverbot Death Troopers to enforce the curfew. Instead, Fry is given a small gun and sent via the sewers then works his way through Old New York. He emerges from underground in a Red Light District, where he finds a gun with much more fire power to fight off any attacking Death Troopers. When he reaches uptown New New York, he steals a chicken walker to fight off the Death Troopers and finally makes it to Rook Takes Pawnshop.

Act II: Bender

Bender on the asteroid

Fry returns with the engine and they install it, the four escape, taking the Reanimator with them. Mom converts the planet into a spaceship in order to take over the universe and is annoyed to hear that the Planet Express crew is escaping. She then proceeds to try to hunt them down, but the Earth's engines aren't powerful enough. At Sal and Son's junkard on an asteroid, Sal informs them that the only kind of engine that will move the Earth is a dark matter engine ("and a big ones at thats"), and she'll need the Professor to get it. The Professor informs Bender that he's now a playable character and the ship gets caught. Sal has helped out Mom by trapping the Planet Express ship in a suck beam. Bender abandons ship, in full view of Mom and her sons, then dies on impact with the asteroid and is brought back by the Reanimator, which falls on his disassembled body. He then agrees to rescue the others in exchange for a box of magazines with fembot centre folds.

On his way to rescue the crew, Bender works his way through a canyon and has to evade Igner in a turret. He then enters a cave where he is chased by a boulder and finds a mining facility. In the facility, Larry tries to kill him with machinery. After finally reaching Sal's junkyard, he battles against Walt, who's in a tank. After the tank explodes (although Walt was able to escape), Bender deactivates the suck beam, boards the Planet Express ship, and everyone escapes.

Act III: Leela

Meeting the locals, on the Sun

The Professor says that he's not skilled enough to invent something to save the day; they'll have to visit his mentor and former graduate advisor Adoy, who lives on Bogad in the furthest corner of the universe. They don't have enough fuel, so Leela, who's now playable, is asked to get some. Mom catches them because she wants blueprints for the dark matter engine. They only exist in the Professor's head so she takes that, in a jar, and sends the Planet Express ship hurtling towards the Sun. The ship crash-lands near Sun City. Ra-Ra the Sun King offers them dark matter in exchange for protecting his people from the murderous Sun God and his army of undead skeletons. Fry and Bender wait at the ship.

Leela works her way through the Sun Temple, solving puzzles and beating up the bone army. She activates a number of crystals to gain access to the inner temple where she finds the Sun God. By activating another set of crystals, she severely injures the Sun God. He admits to not being a god but an "ordinary eternal omniscient super intelligent being" and explains that the skeleton army was actually just robots made out of bones. He describes how making robots from bones is more evil, then laughs so hard he falls into the Sun's molten surface and dies. Leela escapes the sinking temple. With the false god's death, villagers are now safe to exit buildings while Leela returns to the ship. Ra-Ra rewards them with fuel and asks them to celebrate with him at the temple, which burns up in the background. The crew leave before he can notice.

Act IV: Zoidberg

Zoidberg on his "horse"

Mom has hooked the Professor's head into the Earth's engines where he admits that she is now unstoppable. She starts flying the Earth around the universe destroying other planets. The crew land on Bogad, quite literally in the corner of the universe. They meet up with Dr. Zoidberg, who is making a cameo. He misidentifies a nearby animal as a horse and gets on. The crew talk to Adoy, who tells them that his latest invention, the Time Tunneller, will get them back to before Mom became unstoppable. The machine has to be charged first by a generator located behind a dangerous swamp. Without charging, the hand crank on the machine will only turn the universe back two minutes, if turned for two minutes.

Zoidberg is sent off to find the generator by riding his "horse" and since the Reanimator doesn't work on him, Leela uses the hand crank on the Time Tunneller to bring him back every time he dies. Zoidberg reaches the generator and turns it on. Adoy sets up the Time Tunneller and the crew head back in time to Earth. Zoidberg is left behind.

Act V: Mom

Leela makes an escape

Leela crash-lands the severely damaged ship in the Planet Express building next to the past ship. They leave the bad ship behind (this fulfils a time paradox and explains why the ship was damaged at the beginning of the game) and take the good ship to stop the Professor from selling the company. They crash the ship through the window of Mom's Headquarters just as the Professor is about to sign the contract. The Reanimator falls from the wreckage and all three are regenerated. Fry warns the Professor of Mom's plan. Mom tricks Fry, Bender and Leela into standing where she can drop them through a trap door.

They each find themselves in different parts of Mom's HQ and have to try to escape from Destructor, with several gun upgrades, as he enters target practice mode. After Bender and Leela escape, Fry finds a gun and soon after enters battle against Destructor. Fry wins and heads down to meet the other two.

Mom’s sons are cleaning up where the Planet Express ship crashed. Igner breaks the Reanimator, which falls on Destructor's body knocking it onto the crew, killing them permanently. The Professor refuses to sell the company, until Mom offers him a sombrero. The game ends when the scene at the beginning starts over. In other words, "here we go again".

Mom's gameplay levels:

Bender's Breakout (Bender)

Leela's Last Laugh (Leela)

Fry Fights Back (Fry)

Reception

In general, the game received weak/average responses, citing a lack of something exceptional in gameplay, but having hilarious cutscenes and one-liners.[1][2] Wired described the cutscenes as "side splitting".[3] One of the biggest criticisms was the lack of precise controls when some sections required it.[4]

Additional Info

Trivia

The Planet Express level has a giant Easter egg hidden behind one of its walls. The egg can be seen by moving the camera over the roof and past the wall.[5][6] The method for actually opening the wall to view the Easter egg legitimately was published on YouTube on July 21, 2019;[7] the following steps must be performed in sequence:

Pick up the hammer, break Leela's locker to get the key to the boiler room, then enter it.

Destroy the fire extinguisher window. Be careful to not pick up the fire extinguisher itself.

Open the drawer in the lab.

Make sure you have exactly 7 cash collectibles. You can grab 2 in the boiler room, 1 from the drawer, and the rest upstairs in any order you want so long as it's money you can get without breaking something or opening something.

Destroy the TV in the room upstairs. The Easter egg will only appear if exactly 7 cash collectibles have been obtained at this point. If done correctly, you should hear a sound.

Go back to the short hallway where you came from. One second later, the wall of that hallway should open to reveal the literal Easter egg. The egg will wiggle when you hit it.

In the options menu, Billy West provides audio for SFX Volume and Speech Volume testing.

In the former, Fry produces the effects, in the latter, Fry, Professor Farnsworth and Zapp Brannigan test the microphones.

Both Scruffy and Hermes are seen sleeping on the job (actually Hermes isn't sleeping, he is being controlled by a brain slug).

Terry's "Welcome to the world of tomorrow!" features in the intro remix.

This music and other pieces in the game are later reused in the soundtrack of Bender's Big Score.

The four types of mutant seen in this game are how they were expected to be in 2ACV01, there is no sign of intelligence and minimal, if any, humanity.

Adoy: Terrible. Terrible! Terrible! But there's nothing we can do about it now. So it’s a good thing you came to me!

Zoidberg: Hooray, I'm the hero!Fry & Bender: Hooray, we don't have to do anything!

Zoidberg: Killed, eh? I'm no doctor, but that sounds painful.

Adoy: Goodbye heroes! I'll never forget you, whoever you were!

Farnsworth: Did I do something funny?Mom: No, I'm sorry; I should save my evil laugh 'til after you sign.

Fry: Oh no! The reanimator!Leela: Bummer! We'll have to be careful not to die from now on.Bender: You had to say that. [Destructor falls on them.]Farnsworth: Damn it Mom! No one kills my crew except for me! You're going down.Mom: Oh please! You wouldn't hit a lady!Farnsworth: I suppose you're right. Though I would do this! Hoyyaa!Mom: You broke my hip!Farnsworth: I don't care.

Continuity

The Professor cites the fact that the crew never charges anyone as a reason for selling the company.

Additionally, the character and planet names in the game are the Star Wars names backwards.

In Act II a flying saucer contains one of Elvis Presley's costumes and a spacesuit with a helmet that is shaped like his hair.

Ra-Ra the Sun King's name is based on Ra, the Egyptian sun god, though his clothing is Mayan (People of the sun)

Gameplay

The game is an Action/Platformer which includes many typical elements of platformers including platforming, puzzle solving, enemy combat and collectibles.

Bender and Leela each have a series of melee attacks while Leela can also roll and do backflips. They both have a powerful attack which can only be used if they have enough charge. Since Fry is not good at physical combat, he instead uses a series of guns and a hammer.

In each level there are a number of Nibblers trapped in cages; releasing all of them will unlock loading screen art, music and cutscenes. Apart from the Nibblers, each character has their own individual collectibles which give additional lives if 25 are collected. Each character also has their own health restoring items:

Since Zoidberg dies instantly whenever he hits an obstacle he does not have a health restoring item

Fish bones - Additional lives

Goofs/Glitches

At one point the Planet Express hangar is large enough to house two ships.

The only real problems are associated with the invincibility cheat:

Using a suicide booth with the invincibility cheat turned on removes the Fry character model from the screen but doesn't kill you.

When playing as Fry in the sewers level it is possible to freeze your console by using the invincibility cheat, then getting caught by the tentacle mutant. At this point the game can be unfrozen by typing in the invincibility cheat again to deactivate it, allowing Fry to die.

While these cheats should be unnecessary, you can try this yourself with the following codes:

Tips and Tricks

The items in the Planet Express level are indicated on this floorplan.

When in the sewers get fairly close to the pipe tentacles, shoot and then run through. You get about three seconds to run past. In area 8 you have to shoot the tentacles and jump past.

The subway has club troopers that have spiked clubs. So press R1 to lock on, shoot, if they get too close start to back up.

During the fight against Destructor, when a mosquito missile comes out of his red swirled hatch wait until it opens again and hold down square and release it to shoot a power blast, use it about 5 times and then the last cutscene will start.

Types of Generic Enemy Characters

As these are groups of minor enemies introduced to be killed in the game, every appearance is a debut appearance, except for one of the Red Light District robots, which appeared in the background of "Obsoletely Fabulous".

Game to Episode Edits

The DVD of The Beast with a Billion Backs includes the episode contained in this game as a special feature, as well as a commentary track. The episode is cut together from some of FMVs unlocked by collecting Nibblers during gameplay; (almost) all of the in-game cut scenes, the credits and the attract movie, which contains game play footage.

An opening sequence is added, with the caption "The Lost Adventure", which is also the name of the special feature/episode.

Fourth wall breaks (most references to more lives, the "game over" screen and discussion thereof, mention of playable characters) are mostly removed, with the exception of Zoidberg's cameo.

Most brief scenes with minor characters, such as enemies, Mom's sons and the pawnbroker, are removed or edited.